Month: March 2011

We had planned on a small celebration for Ezra’s birthday this weekend, but due to a scheduling snafu, we ended up with an unable-to-be-canceled cupcake cake (30 cupcakes!) and three visitors. So, we invited the Heffs up to help out and managed to devour about half of Iron Man’s mask.

Here’s the Happy Birthday song.

Kids love cupcakes, and are very serious about them. (And I must say, the adults enjoyed them as well.)

The birthday boy chose vanilla. Somewhere along the line, chocolate has fallen out of favor.

Ezra’s actual birthday (last Friday) turned out to be an extremely busy and chaotic day. We knew some of this going in — there was a birthday party for his school friend that afternoon and I had a doctor’s appointment at the same time (the only time could get on short notice with a new doctor and I was sick as a dog and had to take it). So, I decided to make a morning celebration with a blueberry coffee cake and presents. He was pretty happy.

He blew out the candles.

And then moved on to presents. He started with Finn’s. Finn, who shopped with me, had been incredibly good at keeping the whole thing a secret for at least a week, which wasn’t easy since Ezra’s been asking for this Police Robot Headquarters for months now. Here’s Finn showing Ezra all about his gift.

This one is a little blurry but shows how thrilled Ezra was.

Actually, they both were.

I’m sure Finn was relieved to have the cat out of the bag. And believe it or not, breakfast was eaten, teeth brushed, kids dressed and we made it to school on time.

After school, the chaos continued. Bruce came home early so I could get to the doctor and he could take Finn and pick up Ezra from school (and take them to the party at Eaton Canyon). About the time I arrived in the doctor’s office, I got a call from him asking me where the extra Mini key was. Long story short, he couldn’t find it (because I accidentally left it in the pocket of my jacket) and he had to frantically call our friend Cari who was also picking up her daughter at Aveson and heading to the party. Luckily she had room for one more in her minivan (thank goodness for Cari and her minivan).

Bruce headed over to Eaton Canyon on the bike with Finn (Finn’s favorite thing in the whole world) and, after a trip to the pharmacy for some antibiotics and an inhaler, I met them there as well so the boys would have a ride home. In my bronchitis haze, I didn’t bring extra clothes (not anticipating the kids playing in the creek, which was a rookie mistake), so we had two wet, sandy kids. Finn insisted on riding back home with Bruce on the bike and promptly fell asleep. Ezra wasn’t far behind. And neither were Bruce and I.

Playing catch-up on the blog today. Here’s a song Ezra wrote one night before bedtime. He’s performed it quite a few times for us and is very proud! My sweet little singer-songwriter.

We couldn’t really wrap our heads around throwing a party for Ezra’s birthday this year seeing how the house is full of boxes and the backyard is um … a work in progress. So, we threw out the idea of taking him to Disneyland instead, and he was game. In fact, he was extremely excited. He’d only been one other time — when he was two — and he doesn’t remember going.

He gets out early from school on Wednesdays, so we headed down there after pick-up. My friend Jay works at the park and walked us in for free (HUGE!) and then suggested we take Ezra over to City Hall and tell them it’s his birthday. He got a special button to wear and every Disney person we saw wished him a happy birthday. It was really cute.

Ezra and Finn were pretty much in awe the entire time. They’re more familiar with the Disney characters than they used to be so they flipped out when they saw Mickey, Minnie and Pluto roaming around. Ezra got his picture taken with Mickey.

They rode on the front of the boat into the mouth of the whale (on a ride I don’t remember seeing before, but was really cute with little representations of the houses in all of the Disney stories).

They both got to drive Autopia cars.

And they totally loved Toon Town. They played in this boat for a long time and Ezra was thrilled and enchanted that Donald Duck’s voice was coming out of this contraption. The picture looks posed, but really he just couldn’t stop smiling and laughing!

All in all, it was a great day!

Here’s a slideshow of all the photos.